ASI SIG Releases Complementary Advanced Switching Specifications and Expands Membership.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 19, 2004 The Advanced Switching Interconnect Special Interest Group (ASI ASI, n See Anxiety Sensitivity Index. SIG) today released four complementary protocols to the Advanced Switching specification, enhancing the core specification with capabilities that previously required proprietary solutions. The ASI SIG also broadened its ranks with new members representing a broad cross-section of the communications, server, storage and embedded industries. Advanced Switching is a standards-based switched-interconnect and data-fabric architecture based on PCI Express A high-speed peripheral interconnect from Intel introduced in 2002. Note that although sometimes abbreviated "PCX," PCI Express is not the same as "PCI-X" (see PCI-SIG and PCI-X for comparison). As a result of the confusion, "PCI-E" or "PCIe" is the accepted abbreviation. technology for connecting system boards and components in future products. The new protocol interfaces are specialized methods of moving data in communications applications. They include PCI Express encapsulation (1) In object technology, the creation of self-contained modules that contain both the data and the processing. See object-oriented programming. (2) The transmission of one network protocol within another. , simple load/store, simple queuing and simple socket data transport. The new members of the ASI SIG are Agere, Agilent, Alcatel, Altera, AMD (Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, www.amd.com) A major manufacturer of semiconductor devices including x86-compatible CPUs, embedded processors, flash memories, programmable logic devices and networking chips. , Ample Communications, Avery Design, Cisco Systems “Cisco” redirects here. For other uses, see Cisco (disambiguation). Cisco System,Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO, HKSE: 4333 ) is an American multinational corporation with 54,000 employees and annual revenue of US $28.48 billion as of 2006. , Cyclone Microsystems, Denali, GDA GDA Grupo de Diarios de América (Spanish) GDA Global Development Alliance (USAID) GDA Guideline Daily Amount GDA Georgia Dental Association GDA Greenwich Dance Agency (England) , Huawei, IDT IDT Integrated Device Technology, Inc. (Santa Clara, CA, USA) IDT I Don't Think IDT Identity Theft IDT Interrupt Descriptor Table IDT Integrated DNA Technologies IDT Inactive Duty Training IDT Instructional Design & Technology , Intel, Internet Machines Corporation, LSI LSI: see integrated circuit. (Large Scale Integration) Between 3,000 and 100,000 transistors on a chip. See SSI, MSI, VLSI and ULSI. Logic, Marvell, Nokia, Nsys, PLX Technologies, Sandburst, Siemens, Sierra Logic, StarGen, Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA[3]) is an American vendor of computers, computer components, computer software, and information-technology services, founded on 24 February 1982. , Synopsys, Tera Chip, Unisys, Vitesse, Woven Systems, Xilinx, Xyratex and ZettaCom. "We believe the depth and diversity of the new membership is an indication of how appealing an open standard fabric solution is to makers of the building blocks, such as chips and software, and how the industry is now beginning to develop next-generation designs in earnest," said Rajeev Kumar, president of the ASI SIG and Advanced Switching initiatives manager, Intel Corporation. "These companies are now rapidly moving forward to take advantage of the cost and time-to-market benefits of the standards-based modular approach." New Complementary Protocols Released The first of the four subsidiary protocol interface specifications is PCI Express encapsulation, which describes the standard tunneling scheme for moving PCI Express packets through an Advanced Switching backplane. The three other protocols establish methods for moving data in specific applications. Simple load/store is an extension based on the PCI (1) (Payment Card Industry) See PCI DSS. (2) (Peripheral Component Interconnect) The most widely used I/O bus (peripheral bus). load/store method for transporting data in many communications applications that require specific addresses. Simple queuing is a method that utilizes queues, instead of specific addresses, for moving messages between sender and receiver for storage and other communications applications. Socket data transport enables large blocks of data to be moved directly between memory devices without burdening a CPU CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. in a manner similar to Remote Direct Memory Access, also for storage and other communications applications. The first completed building blocks based on Advanced Switching are expected to be on the market by early next year and completed systems based on those components available by the second half of 2005. About Advanced Switching Advanced Switching uses the same physical and link layers as the PCI Express architecture to achieve widespread interoperability and availability of technology. At the transaction layer, Advanced Switching provides an array of specialized communications features, including high-availability functions, peer-to-peer and multicast networking, congestion The condition of a network when there is not enough bandwidth to support the current traffic load. congestion - When the offered load of a data communication path exceeds the capacity. and system management, scalability, and support for virtually any networking protocol. This optimized transaction layer provides equipment developers the flexibility to create value-added features into communications, storage and embedded solutions. Together, PCI Express and Advanced Switching technologies ensure broadly available building blocks and tools that enable component and equipment makers to reuse technology across multiple products, reduce design costs and shorten the time it takes to get products to market. About the ASI SIG The ASI SIG is a nonprofit collaborative trade organization chartered with providing a switched fabric interconnect standard for the communications and compute industries. The ASI SIG provide the highest quality technical and marketing support to enable the marketplace to create a unique and interoperable set of building blocks for the communication, storage, blade server and embedded platforms. The ASI SIG board of directors includes Agere, Alcatel, Huawei, Intel, Siemens, Vitesse and Xilinx. Additional information on the Advanced Switching specifications and membership in the ASI SIG can be found at http://www.asi-sig.org. PCI Express is a trademark of PCI-SIG. Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. |
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